Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.
I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.
You don’t rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
In your teens and twenties, death doesn’t exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.
There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we’re sincere; and our death.
I did nothing to deserve God’s love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God’s family.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know – it’s everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.
